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Would you use a publicly owned, municipal, isp or telephone company?

I might be in the minority to think this is a great idea, if it were basically "pump government money into developing and hosting instances of the Fediverse (GNU Social, Mastodon, Friendica, Hubzilla, or Pleroma) AND building those data centers in collaboration with the Open Compute Project (Facebook is publishing the blueprint on how to build a facebook datacenter, take advantage of it.)

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Its important to note that when Corbyn talks about nationalisation he is talking about something more similar to this than top down state control.

There is a partial critique of the post-1945 wave of nationalisation in John McDonnell's speeches where he recognises that they were undemocratic and far too centralised and inefficient. There was a conference on this in London this year.

Is all of my traffic encrypted? Can they shut off my access if I do something they don't like? How much will they charge? How frequent are the black outs? Are they a monopoly?

Would you accept wages paid to you in Venezuela's cryptocurrency?

Water, gas, and electricity have provided no benefit to the consumer from privatisation. The spare capacity in the grid has markedly reduced, safety is no better, leaks are still ignored far too long, and consumers are often price-gouged with some pretty regressive pricing schemes that penalise all except those who supplier hop every single month.

"Competition" appears to have provided benefit for shareholders and no one else in those industries. It has provided opportunity to expand for one or two other nation's nationalised utilities to benefit their consumers.

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